BIB_ID
381178
Accession number
MA 5026.153
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1942 or 1943].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.7 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from John Cheever to his wife, Mary Cheever. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 5026 for details.
Written while Cheever was at Camp Gordon, Ga., but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Written while Cheever was at Camp Gordon, Ga., but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Telling her that he plans to call her tomorrow; remarking that he "wants [her] to telephone [Bennett] Cerf on Monday"; reporting that his newspaper came out yesterday; describing his dinner with a man named Addis; expressing his approval of her purchase of "a bed-spread"; writing that Sailor's Snug Harbor claims to have "no apartments to fit [their] requirements; noting that "the last couple of nights have been like spring, and when [they] stand reveille the moon is setting the way it used to be at [Camp] Croft"; mentioning that the New Yorker wants him "to tone down the character of Limeburger."
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